11:45 a.m. -- Mayor de Blasio stressed that the changes in the NYPD will be part of a "bigger process of reform" that involves "trying to resolve issues that were years and decades in the making.

To get it right, reform, he said will take intensity, effort patience.

He described faith leaders as "peacemakers" and key participants in reform that calls for "two equally important goals" of fostering mutual respect between the NYPD and citizens while keeping communities safe.

"This is the mission we're on, to create that mutual respect while keeping crime low," the mayor said. "One without the other is a disservice to the communities we all serve."

11:15 a.m. -- "Commissioner Bratton is entirely right about training," Mayor de Blasio said, adding that "systemic retraining will have a huge impact" and will help draw the community and the NYPD closer.

"Everyone feels a sense of pain over what happened to Eric Garner," the mayor said, adding, "when I saw that video I was deeply troubled."

11:00 a.m. -- Bratton stressed the need for retraining of all 35,000 members of the NYPD and the mayor said he supported that effort.

"Training is absolutely the essential catalyst out of this tragedy for finding opportunity," Bratton said.

Training will be ongoing and involve the 35,000 force members and especially the 20,000 members routinely on street and in plain clothes, Bratton said. The plan is to have the NYPD engage with the public in ways that "we build respect, we build trust, we build confidence... rather than the events of the 120 Precinct," Bratton said.

He promised that the NYPD would learn and move forward from the Garner tragedy.

"If Dante wasn't your son, he would be a candidate for a chokehold," Rev. Sharpton tells the mayor.

He called for real changes and engagement. "I am tired of seeing people bury their kin," he said.

City Councilwoman Debi Rose quoted Eric Garner saying, "It ends today," when talking about the "horrific incident" of his death in her North Shore district on Staten Island. "We are a community that mourns and demands justice," Ms. Rose said.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In the aftermath of the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island, Mayor Bill de Blasio is hosting a roundtable on police-community relations that includes NYPD Commissioner William Bratton and the Rev. Al Sharpton on Thursday.

Staten Island clergy and community members are participating in the event on Thursday morning at City Hall in Manhattan that will be reported live by the Advance.

Sharpton and his National Action Network have been at the forefront of protest activities on Staten Island and beyond over the July 17 death of Garner, 43, of Port Richmond, following an altercation with police on the street across from Tompkinsville Park. Police had attempted to arrest Garner for selling untaxed cigarettes.

Videos surfaced showing what appeared to be an NYPD officer using a banned chokehold and an absence of emergency medical treatment at the scene on Bay Street near Victory Boulevard.